Inside the studio: Italdesign Michigan
By Jason White2025-06-05T08:08:00
Italdesign opens a low-profile but high-impact office in Michigan, bringing its legendary design-engineering fusion closer to America’s automotive heartland
In February of 1968, two enterprising men, Giorgetto Giugiaro and Aldo Mantovani, founded Studi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi S.p.A. – a venture that would come to be known, simply, as Italdesign. 57 years on, this consultancy maintains a reputation that is, quite frankly, unparalleled in the world of automotive design.
Landmark products like the Lotus Esprit (seen below), the Fiat Panda and the Lancia Delta, have made Italdesign a household name within the c…